PREVIEW LEARNING RESOURCES Learning Resources will showcase new educational toys for kids ages 3 and up. The Pretend & Play Teaching ATM Bank will be available this spring. The electronic ATM bank features coin recognition and a bill feeder. Kids can keep track of savings and learn valuable money skills. It has a fingerprint button to turn the machine on and off and an ATM screen that keeps track of savings. The Pretend & Play Teaching ATM Bank bank comes with pretend money and an ATM card that kids can personalize with a four-digit pin. The Latch & Learn School House is an interactive set that includes a teacher and four student figures. The schoolhouse features two ways to play—upright or flat—and a handle for on-the-go play. The set helps strengthen number-, color-, and shape-recognition skills. The Latch & Learn School House will be available this winter. Kids will learn about geography as they play with the Puzzle Globe, which will be available this winter. Each removable continent features a different-shaped post that fits only one area of the globe to allow for easy use and simple self-correction. The continents also include colorful animals and famous landmarks for extended learning. The globe rotates and has a base, six continent puzzle pieces, six plastic continent labels, and blank label stickers. With 1-2-3 Build It!, kids can learn how things move, as well as enhance early engineering and design skills. The easy-to-assemble mix-and-match pieces can create a car, an airplane, and a boat. 1-2-3 Build It! also comes with a screwdriver for kids to tighten up their projects and pieces to build different kinds of vehicles. The set will be available this winter.
RUBIE'S COSTUME CO. Rubie’s Costume Co. will launch the new DC Super Hero Girls Collection, part of the Imagine by Rubie’s line of dress-up costumes and accessories. Harley Quinn includes red and black lamé leggings with attached shorts, a short-sleeved shirt with red and black glitter accents, and a black eye mask. Supergirl features a short-sleeved red and blue lamé dress with the Superman logo, an attached red cape, two wrist bands, and a blue head band. Batgirl has a purple long-sleeved shirt with an attached hood, a pair of gold gauntlets, a gold belt, black bat wings, black leggings with a gold side pinstripe, and an eye mask. Wonder Woman features a short-sleeved red and white DC Super Hero Girls: Batgirl shirt with gold accents, silver gauntlets, blue leggings, a lasso, and a gold tiara with a red star.
MAGFORMERS
Space Wow 22Pc Set
With the Magformers Shimmer and Shine 22Pc Set, kids can click their Magformers together to create genie lamps, gondolas, and more. They can add inserts, or follow along with the four idea mats to take their creations from 2-D to 3-D. The set also includes 14 magnetic shapes, four inserts, four Shimmer and Shine double-sided character cards, two diamond jewels, and four double-sided play cards. The Blaze and the Monster Machines 22Pc Set lets Blaze transform into almost anything, including moon rovers and go karts. Kids can click and connect the Magformers to match colors, characters, and shapes in order to build eight different monster machines. Then, they can add Blaze Wheels to transform their ideas into race cars and dune buggies. The set includes 14 magnetic shapes, two Blaze Wheels, six inserts, six double-sided character cards, and four double-sided play cards. With the Space Wow 22Pc Set, kids can build spaceships and rockets while learning about cube nets, patterns, shapes, and colors. They can also add an antenna and wheels to create a space buggy or construct a space station.
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